Bac Ha is a little town located 80 km from Lao Cai, often combined with tour to Sapa. Bac Ha market mainly operates on Sunday. H’Mong people with difference colours from their costumes make the Bac Ha market lively and interesting. Can Cau market is one of the most exotic tribal markets in Vietnam. It is 20 km north of Bac Ha, and just 9 km south of the Chinese border. The market only runs on Saturday.

At 20h30 pickup from your hotel in Hanoi or from Little Vietnam Tours office. Transfer to railway station for a night train at 21h30 to Sapa (Soft sleeper with A/C).

Day1: Lao Cai - Sapa - Cat Cat - Lao Chai - Ta Van. (Fri; Meals: B/L/D)
Upon arrival in Lao Cai Station, bus transfer to Sapa. After breakfast and get ready for the trip, trek down to Lao Chai village to visit the Tay and Dzay tribes then keep going along the bottom of the Sapa valley to get to Ta Van village, which is supposed to be one of the most beautiful area. Have a picnic lunch on the way. Get back to Sapa by motorbike/jeep. Stay overnight in hotel in Sapa. (App. 6 hours trekking/14 km and 30 minutes riding).

Day 2: Sapa - Can Cau market - Bac Ha. (Sat; Meals: B/L/D)
After breakfast our Jeep we drive you to Can Cau market (On Saturday). It takes more than 2 hours to get to CanCau - a small market situated in a valley surrounded by mountains and only 7 km from China. The market deeply shows the typical cultural features of the minorities in remote mountainous areas in Vietnam. Further more, you can enjoy seeing boys and girls in colorful costumes - different colors of the mountains. They attend the market in the hope of finding "the other halves of their lives" and this is also the time for them to chat, to exchange everything among different ethnic peoples through cups of wine sold in the market. Say goodbye to the market and transfer to BacHa. On the way, spend time visiting a village of the Flower H'mong and then check in hotel in BacHa. Free to explore the town. (Lunch in CanCau or in BacHa and dinner in BacHa). Overnight in Bac Ha.

Day 3: Bac Ha market - Lao Cai - Hanoi. (Sun; Meals: B/L/D)
Breakfast and the beginning of the day on which you visit a big market filled with many different hill-tribe peoples. This is the most colorful market in North Vietnam. At the market, you have chance to enjoy BacHa people's simple but unique kinds of food with special wines made from rice, cassavas, corn and different sorts of fruits such as plumps, apples, peaches... talking to the minorities through the guide's interpretation. Leave the market for the H'mong King's house (King Hoang A Tuong) built by the French colonists and the Chinese in 1920. Return the town for lunch. In the afternoon, spend time visiting another village (BanPho village) Say good bye to BacHa and get back to Lao Cai. On the way back, drop in to see the Vietnamese and Chinese Harbour Mouth in LaoCai. Transfer to Lao Cai station for the night train at 8.55PM to Hanoi. Arrives in Ha Noi at 5.00AM. End of the trip.